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Friday, October 21, 2016

Ghostly Maze (鬼打墙)

Ghostly maze is a phenomenon where a person just walks
around a place and couldn’t find a way out for a very long time.

Scientific minded people has found an explanation to this
mystery: If a person is blind folded or walk in the dark, then his/her stronger
leg will take a bigger step compared to his/her weaker ones. So, he/she will
appear to walk in circles if seen by a second person. Likewise, if the
surrounding looks the same such as in a rubber plantation, oil palm plantation,
open wilderness or field; or even in alleys people can lost his/her way because
the eyes and mind are blurred. And, that is from the perspective of
science.

But what science cannot explain is that most of the time
while a missing person is purportedly to have walked in a circle, and rescuers
are sent to search for the missing within a very small piece of area; no traces
of the missing person could be found. Instead, the missing person would
complaint that he/she was in the search area all the while and that he/she even
shouted at the rescue team but their shout was ignored.

Some village folks believe that a missing person maybe
trapped or blindfolded by local spirits. In local terms, the person is trapped
by ‘ghostly maze’. If a person believed he/she has fallen into ghostly maze,
the only way to get out of this curse is to pull down his/her pants and ‘pee’.
Of course, a Ninja would use the kuji-kiri (九字结) method and a Taoist would
invoke the help of his spiritual masters. Personally, I think the ‘peeing’
method is the best!

Kids living in rubber plantations if they are not in the
school, they would just wander in the plantations fishing, hunting or just
roaming about until darkness fall. The only time you could find them behaving
themselves would be on rainy days or at night. Likewise, when I was staying with
my grandparents in the piece of rubber plantation; I used to roam in the
plantation with my cousin until darkness fall.

One evening, after two of us fished in a lake located at the
edge of the rubber plantation; we took our normal route back. As we were
walking and walking, suddenly the most familiar scene in front of us became
more or less the same. We found ourselves just walked and walked as if we were
walking around and around the same area for many times. As we were getting
tired, we bumped into two lady farmers who stayed just opposite my grandparent’s
house. When I say opposite, it was about 100 yards away.

Apparently the ladies too lost their ways and they seemed to
have walked for a longer period longer than ours. Now four of us started to
chat about our problems and suddenly I thought of a method mentioned by my
grandpa. This method is to ‘pee’. Though my cousin has no objection, the ladies
were certainly against this seemingly foolish suggestion. But as time goes by
and the environment in the rubber plantation does get dark faster than the
outside world, they had to agree.

So, I asked the ladies to turn their back, me and my cousin
started to pee.

Believe it or not, as soon as we have peed, the road in
front of us suddenly became clear and an orb appeared in front of us at a
distance. What else, all of us moved forward and no matter how fast we walked;
we could not get near the orb. After a round of chasing, we finally arrived at
our house. Though we couldn’t explain what that orb was and why the sky
suddenly cleared; we were certainly happy to be home on time for dinner; thus
avoiding scolding.

3 comments:

Hello Mr Liew, I admire your vast knowledge and really enjoy reading your posts. I have been following your stories in the past 3-4 years. I read sometime in 2014 (I think) about a story of a magic method involving cooking/roasting sand/soil. I was looking for that story but could not find it. Could you kindly point to me where I can find that story please? Thank you so much.

Hello Lee, Thank you for your interests in my blog. The only story about foasting/frying sand that I can think about is about catching thieves by taking the sand/soil of their footprints. If you mean that, then let me search it out, or repost it. Otherwise, please tell me more. Thanks again.